Network Musings, Feb 12, 2010

“After installing today’s update 02/09/10 I now get the BSoD PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA 0x00000050,” said one user, who goes by the screen name Sacdan69. “This has happened to both my wife’s computer and my nephew’s.”

AT&T stays with a well worn relationship with Alcatel/Lucent and Ericsson (Remember EDGE – Ericsson’s technology) to move forward with LTE. Though I think WIMAX is a better technology for delivering high speed internet access over wireless, LTE will leverage already existing infrastructure. And really now it’s just Sprint/Intel/Clear to deliver WIMAX.

Level3 continues to lose money. If the company weren’t so important to carriers and government alike, it would have been out of business a long time ago.

The Broomfield-Colo.-based service provider lost $182 million in the three months ending Dec. 31 – that’s compared to a year-earlier profit of $43 million. The number also outpaced 2009’s third-quarter losses of $170 million. Revenue fell, too, by 12 percent to $921 million. On the whole, the losses were higher than analysts expected.

According to a statement released by the EFF on Friday, the VoIP patent — which covers systems where the internet is used to route and maintain voice calls made between analogue phones — should not have been granted because “both a prior patent and published reference materials described the underlying technology” long before the applicant, Acceris, made its claim in 1995.

“We never said chip-and-PIN was completely infallible,” a spokeswoman said Friday. “We firmly believe it [the attack] is not really plausible in a day-to-day environment. They’ve created a convoluted way of committing this fraud.”